The Secret Pool Hidden In The Mojave Desert
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- In 2014, artist Alfredo Barsuglia, and the MAK Center For Art & Architecture created "Social Pool" in the middle of the Mojave Desert. A swimming pool in a secret location, but open to anyone, users would contact the Mak Center For Art & Architecture for the coordinates, and a key. One person or a small group could use it, they were required to bring a gallon of water with them to replenish the pool. What happened to it?
I wanted to see what became of it...
Please check out the artist, Alfredo Barsuglia at:
www.alfredobarsuglia.com/
There is a new social pool project currently in the planning stages, please search for "Social Pool 2.0" on Facebook.
#Social Pool #Pool In The Middle Of Nowhere
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro.
1:00 - Driving Through The High Desert.
1:40 - Following Apple Maps To The Wrong Place.
2:09 - Where R.V.'s Go To Die.
4:20 - Deep Soft Sand Requires 4x4.
5:27 - What Remains Of Social Pool.
8:17 - Long Gone, Nothing But A Pit.
Sometimes it's the temporary nature of things, that makes them so special. ~unknown.
I wonder if there’s any bodies in those burned out motorhomes? Freaky…
I think there was bugs in the pool
I was one of the first visitors to the pool. At the time I was unemployed, and part of my routine was to read the paper. The LA Times had an article on a Friday morning on the place. After reading about it, I put the paper down and drove 30 minutes in a rush to MAK, and got the key. That afternoon me and a friend went out there and just chilled out. The pool was still relatively hidden from the dirt road, and unless you were looking for it, you'd go right by it. Either way, a very cool experience.
Thank you for sharing a first hand experience. I wanted to go to it too, but it ended up being one of those things in life left undone.
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And this is why we can't have nice things.
Yep.
Some worthless humans can't enjoy anything without their jealousy, envy, and self disappointment causing them to destroy...
I thought that pool would be so fun to visit. So sad that people are such vandals.
Someone even tried to restore it, and was working to get it back up and running. At some point during the restoration, vandals showed up and burned it. If they do this again, hopefully it will be made of concrete, and on private property, and perhaps someplace even more remote, like a hot spring or something. Thanks for watching. Please give the video a like, and subscribe!
Boredom fuels this behaviour (vandalism)
@@jkotynek being a piece of shit is what fuels it. Plenty of not bad things to do when bored but they choose this. Meaning it’s not the boredom it’s just that they are cunts
They're have been multiple people in the comments sections saying that they destroyed it due to it being "litter/pollution disguised as art" a claim I also saw being made by some in regards to the dessert monoliths, I don't know if they were lying by claiming it was them or not, it does however fit the MO of people who have committed similar destructions, down to the anti-anything made by man, such people tend to just get angry and begin with the hertic labeling when anyone brings the notion of people being part of nature, that many animals build things, that all throughout history people have been creating, including dwellings, dams, etc that are made by othee animals, but that is another discussion, entirely, either way it is incredibly infuriating that it was destroyed.
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
Rat Patrol?
Big Iron on his hip
oh god… *t a x e s*
@@SurrealAdventure fallout new Vegas
based
I subscribed because you use good safety protocol when exploring. The temptations can be so strong but you let your brain stay in control. Great vlogs!
Thanks. I've been amazed what I've run into, young people, mostly unprepared, no sunscreen, no hat, a half full bottle of water in their hand, sun burnt, miles from safety. One of the worst places I've found is "The Bridge To Nowhere", which is a very popular SoCal hike, but isn't really a novice level hike. It's a moderate/better be prepared level hike that people have died on. One year, like a fool, I decided to hike it in the middle of summer, and it was ~103F. I brought extra water and was well prepared, and went with another person. It was brutal. When I arrived at the end, there was this young man suffering from severe dehydration and heatstroke, throwing up, confused and his friends were almost fighting him to keep him in a shady spot on the ground... They had sent someone back to the car to get help, but that was 2 hours away, and then a 30 minute car ride to cell service. I had brought 3 liters of water that day, and ran out on the way back. UA-cam and videos often skip to the good parts and omit the 4 hour hike up the mountain. I love Death Valley, but ~4-6 people die every year there! People die at the Grand Canyon too, they fall in!
This is interesting as hell I can’t wait to see what else you find
Thanks! I broke my left arm/wrist and right shoulder in a cycling accident, so probably not videos for a couple months, but I want to get back out asap!
Johnson Valley OHV Area King Of The Hammers has a million people drive past that pool area every year from Soggy Dry Lake to Means Dry Lake. Just not in summer months. Not exactly the middle of nowhere but cool video.
Probably why it didn’t last long.
Feels like I'm playing Fallout New Vegas just waiting for a giant scorpion to pop out from the gultch.
That's what this whole area looks like. Thanks for watching, please give the video a like and subscribe for more offbeat stuff!
@SurrealAdventure, very much appreciated your time and effort to bring us your videos, very sad to see a historical site destroyed, have been seeing alot of historical sites being destroyed by vandalism keep doing what your doing brah 👌 👍
Working on some more cool desert stuff, but I was injured for a time, and now I'm recovered, but it's been too hot! Thanks for watching, please give the video a like!
Great video 👍, very interesting.
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Cool video, cool soundtrack. Thank you
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Very exiting video. That Pool could have stayed there. i see it as a secrete spot to re;ax and cool off. in the water. I enjoyed the video. and yes the deser is super hot in the daytime. And if i ever explore the desert i would do it in the winter months
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@@SurrealAdventure I did. I Subscribed and Liked the Video. Also I guess if A new Pool is going to be built it may be bigger and better. I do believe the hot weather natually heats the water.
Good video .Yea that is out in the middle of nowhere 🌵🌵
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@@SurrealAdventure i hit the thumbs up and subscribed too..
I first thought that that pool in the middle of nowhere was from Desert X art
The handy work of a POS named Spanky, around 2015/16. One of Lucerne Valley's finest..... It was intact until then. There used to be another motorhome there.
Sounds like you live around there. Sad to see we can't keep things nice.
@@SurrealAdventure i did for a short time. I had seen the pool intact and wondered why it was placed there? Nothing can be left there unattended for long or it will meet the same fate, unfortunately.
@@soundslikebstome Do you mind telling us more in regards to the destruction of this groovy cool pool?
As well as any anther interesting tales you have acquired during your time in that area?
@@starwolfleblue9948 Wasnt much more to it. All the tweekers left it alone. The water was clear. Seemed in good shape...then this idiot tore it apart and scrapped what he could...for next to nothing probably. Closer to town, it is kind of like other small desert towns. The further out it is a bit more scandalous. There are places that are only lived in during certain parts of the year. Therein lies a problem. The roaming tweekers will do recon missions and when they see a vacant place it is going to get got. Period. It is a network of like minded individuals. There is something about that hot, windy, freezing cold place that I liked tho. Its not for everybody.
@@soundslikebstome It is difficult to describe the pull that some places hold and have, but I think I know what you mean. Tis a shame there is that murky flipside to a place you hold dear, thank you for taking the time to both share some of your experiences and feelings on the area, as well as the true tale of what happened to the art piece pool that became a mysterious pile of ash, as if It were never here, at least it holds itself intact in the memories made in the minds of those who were able to have the pleasure to enjoy it while it still remained.
Lol I remember debating asking the homie if he wanted to go
We call it 'poof dirt'...it's especially heinous. Basically you step in it and it 'poofs'. When wet,its'like cement.
Yes. What's not shown in the video, was me getting my truck stuck, in almost nothing. I finally backed it out, then put it in 4wheel drive, and went the rest of the way. It's much more dangerous than it looks, as it is very remote.
Great Video!
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I love finding houses and trailers unmarked in the middle of nowhere
Someone’s dreams, left to rot.
@@SurrealAdventure theyre filled with treasure!
Thank you!
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I love the Mojave. Can I go exploring with you?
I don't know, asking strangers to go exploring out in the middle of the Mojave could get dangerous! :)
That would be a cool installation on the moon.
Did you notice the humanoid shape of grass or something on the flat bottom of the hole? Reminds me of someone floating not the surface with their arms out.
I did not. I'll have to re-watch it now. It wasn't that deep, most likely shadows. Thanks for watching, please give the video a like and subscribe for more offbeat stuff!
I love the Mojave desert so many odd finds I always wonder how the hell and who the hell left this or built this here. Like that RV wish we knew the story behind it
Most of what gets left out in the desert is either stolen, or dumped. The RV looked like a bomb went off in it, like it was intentionally torn up, which is weird. Thanks for watching! Please give the video a like and subscribe for more offbeat stuff!
I live out here and probably best answer is some scumbag dumped the rv because they suck
Hey, that motor home is still good.. is it for rent?
It just needs to go to camping world for some minor service…
You put a pool out in the middle of no where and you thought it would be still there today
I'm not sure why people feel the need to destroy everything.
If it was built on Venus, it still wouldn't be safe from vandals.
reminds me of when I went to a rave in the middle of the desert in a rental car
fkng terrifying darkness, feels like you REALLY don't belong there haha
Sounds like something I would have done back in the 90s.
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Its looks like A Mafia grave where someone was possibly going to die.
Well, if you go out to this somewhat remote place in the middle of summer, the intense heat can make it yours. I got freaked out when I went, my 4x4 started to sink in the sand.
I live in 29, sorry to hear it’s gone 😢
Nothing lasts long in America. If this were in Japan, it would last 500 years, be a shrine, and maintained by random people. Thanks for watching, please give the video al like and subscribe for more offbeat stuff!
Some people are just a piece of $h!t.... lol...can't enjoy anything. Cool video....
Agreed, and thank you.
Exactly
A place where motorhomes go to die. It's tweekerville. They are all over the desert. This squatting is a massive problem for the non drugged people who live in the desert. It is a never ending battle to get them off the property. It's "Whack a Mole" in real life. Besides destroying and trashing the local environment it's the property owner who is stuck with cleaning this up after the tweekers move on.
And a lot of that is BLM land, so they just corrode away until nothing but detritus is left strewn across the landscape.
excellent video. looks like it was burned away. good chance it was first destroyed by wind then once it became useless people set it on fire. Desert winds tear everything apart. So it may not totally be vandals, although once the water was gone / people would likely shoot it and set it on fire.
Thank you! It actually fell into disrepair maybe a year after it was built, just from the elements, then someone came along and destroyed it. It was more or less rebuilt, and then destroyed again, and then I think everyone just gave up. Thanks for watching, Please give the video a like and subscribe for more offbeat stuff!
There was a tik tok posted about someone finding this pool and they were jumping on it and smashing stuff onto it without knowing it was owned by someone . There was alot of hate toward the person who posted the video and there username is now taken down
It must have been a while ago. It was initially vandalized, and then, some good samaritans decided to restore it, after which it was vandalized again, and set on fire. Very sad, but not unexpected. There was actually an effort on Facebook called something like “social pool 2.0” where they were trying to raise money to do another one, but then someone absconded with the money, and it was abandoned by the Admins.
@SurrealAdventure ya that sucks. I'm not sure what video it was or maybe it was a UA-cam one I can't remmeebr , but the guys who thrashed it were not as young as you'd expect. To have it taken off I'm sure karma got them somehow
There's no way it would have not dried up to nothing anyway. Not a good place to put a swimming pool 😂
It was designed with a locking cover, and users were required to bring a gallon of water to replace what was lost...
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That motorhome just needs a good buffing...
Where motorhomes go to die.
What did the U.S. Bureau of Land Management have to say about building on their property?
They said nothing because there’s millions of square miles of desert, and this was secret.
@@SurrealAdventure Thanks. I won't tell anyone(lol)
Thats not a pool that's a man made oasis!
It was pretty awesome. It's unfortunate that it isn't still around.
I wonder who's buried underneath. 🤔
Whitey Bulger & Jimmy Hoffa.
Damn, that’s a grave!
Almost looks that way.
@@SurrealAdventure Ah, I listen to too many true crime podcasts and videos! Lol!
If there was a pool there before wouldn't all the dirt be leveled ? Why is there a pile of dirt sitting next to that grave 🤔
That rv looked like a crime scene
Yep. I was going to climb in it, then I thought, hmm, no, there's probably needles. I had to edit out the graffiti on the side with the door, the entire other side of it said something like "kill ni****s".
😂Lots of places like that in the Mojave!
4:17
I'd say that's a coachman Mirada
Jk I have no clue
Looks like a possible coachman or airstream
Edit: changed my mind
I think its a winnebago judging by the bumper
I know motor homes pretty well actually, and I kinda agree, it looks like one of those old Coachman's.
That is pretty cool if you are out there or passing for ? Not a trip I amLikely to take to go to a pool. I do enjoy off road and fast desert trails in a luxury style prerunnerwith long wheel travel and the modern position sensative shocks that are tunable and have shock oil resiviors seporate per shock .THE kINGS and some top brands with similar tech can turn your off road vehicle into a whoop taming permagrin creatingsmooth ride in safer controlnot spilling your drink . that is safe while doing this!! THERE ARE ALWAYS SURPRISES OFF ROADING AND THE FASTER YOU GO THE MORE BRUTAL THEY BECOME AND YOU SEE IT TOO LATE ! stopping fastenough or steering around them are not an option with off road surprises at a fast pace. YES the words OFF ROAD AINT CHEAP can land on you fast doing this. BE carefull of others that are out there like youi too. YOU THINK WHO WOULD BE THIS FAR OUT ? wELL YOU MAY NOT BE THE ONLYBRAVE ONE. wEATHER THEY HAVE A JEEP IN A GROUP SPOTTING EACH OTHER OFF A CUIRB. ANICE OFF ROAD GULF CART SIZE CCAPABLE OFF ROADER OR MOTORCYCLES ETC.. tHERE WERE SOME HIPPIE TYPE ?THAT WENT JUST CAMPING in GLAMMIS . THEY WERE CAUGHT PARKING IN THE NO GO HABITAT/PLANT SANCTUARY WITHOUT EVEN paying to camp. They are out there where you least suspect .Know where you go is safe and cllear!!!
Be Safe skilled and build strong.THE Single weakest part wwill break ! just being in places conditions broken or stuck can be deadly!! Have fun keep getting dirty !
Could now be used as a grave..
That is what it looks like at this point.
If I was really rich I would make a bunch of these and put them all over the desert and let whomever use it
That would be pretty cool. An oasis everywhere.
And they would all dry out in a week.
They should put them near the Mexico border so when the illegals get to the other side they can refresh themselves.
Its where motorhomes arw put to Collecting the insurance. Owners need a place to dump the say they were stolen collecting insurance.
This should've been a wild wasteland extra
New Vegas?
@@SurrealAdventure yep
A Human who destroys Art ... is not Human
Look at the picture , then look at where you are . Its not the same place . Look at the scale of the mountains in the picture , and the scale of where you went ..................you didnt go in far enough . The mountain in the picture is much closer , than where you ended up .
It’s the zoom of the original lens, it’s the same place, im maybe standing 6 feet off.
@@SurrealAdventure I found some other pics of it , it looked fairly small , enough for about two people . Great idea , too bad more things like that are not out there . I dont know what is worse , or bigger criminals , Vandals , Taggers , or BLM bulldozing our history .
6:06 You're welcome.
Everybody is chillin until somebody throws some dirt in there 💀
It was a really great concept, and a great pool until it was vandalized & destroyed.
In South Korea, that would still be there.
Everything in America gets vandalized. You would need to put up a fence around it, with cameras, and security patrols, and then, it would probably still get vandalized.
Why would somebody want to destroy. I cannot understand.
I've often wondered the same. I guess it wasn't remote enough. I've been places that are so remote, there is no graffiti! Thanks for watching, please give the video a like and subscribe for more offbeat stuff!
I don't understand it also...i know the desert for a long time the beautiful desert...why should you destroy something.
Why would you put.A pool in the desert anyway?
Why not?
It’s art, no one expects a nice cold water pool in the middle of a hot desert.
Someone should fill that hole in so people / atv's / trucks don't drive into it....
It’s in a remote place not near a regular road that someone would normally drive down.
3:49 WOW....the homeless squatters are even trashing the desert !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More likely just a stolen or dumped motorhome, or used for a short time as a meth lab. Who knows. Thanks for watching! Please give the video a like and subscribe for more offbeat stuff!
Sad, that A-holes had to destroy the pool
They ruined it for everyone else
What's worse, someone decided to restore it, and at some point during the restoration, vandals torched it. This is why we can't have nice things! Thanks for watching, please subscribe and give the video a like!
Why do people always vandalize and destroy everything, the dark side of humans.
Interestingly, the same thing doesn't happen in some other countries. Russia has plenty of soviet era ruins, entire towns abandoned without any graffiti, Japan is the same way. I don't know what it is about Americans that makes us so disrespectful.
Although I do not know if the claims are valid there are several people claiming/regurgitating in comments sections related to this pool that they destroyed it, due to it being "trash and pollution disguised as art", sadly, I saw similar claims about the desert monoliths, which also ended up being destroyed. Some seemingly insane people (whom most likely created nothing worthy of note or attention) seem to encourage and participate in the destruction of rare and wonderful creations, using the hatred of all things man made as an excuse for being destructive (usually using man made tools to do so) as well often as an excuse to be miserable piece of shit in general. I suppose THOSE WHO CANNOT CREATE, who hold envy and resentment to those who can and do, tend to destroy instead, what total loosers.
Always a A-hole who has to tear things up. Sad.
Yeah, this is why we can't have nice things. If this were in Japan, it would probably still be there in 100 years.
that one had no chance. It wasn't really in the middle of nowhere and to use it you'd have to go all the way into LA for the key. Please no more city "art" in the desert.
I guess "middle of nowhere" is subjective. Your right, but for city folks, this is pretty remote! Thanks for watching, please give the video a like and subscribe for more offbeat stuff!
I can't believe people do this no respect for the nature/desert.
Didn’t take long at all. Once word got out it was there, it was gone in a year or so.
😥
Just goes to show we can't have nice things.
Nope. Lol. It wasn’t far enough from civilization. Next time it needs to be on the moon. The only way.
wait this aint fallout new vegas
Your at least the third person to mention Fallout New Vegas. Never played, maybe I should. Last guy was mentioning he was waiting for a giant scorpion.
Course vandals destroyed it
Looks like an old meth lab that was abandoned.
Someone else that was familiar with that area claimed in a comment, that is exactly what that R.V. was used for. Thanks for watching, please give the video a like and subscribe for more offbeat stuff!
Ever heard of Tecopa hot tub, or hepatitis spring?
Lol. Never heard of hepatitis spring, but I'll look it up. I've been through Tecopa Hot Springs, it's a beautiful little edge of nowhere resort off of Death Valley Road, north of Baker.
Good place for a mob guy to have buried a body
They have the whole desert for that.
Just bc it's in the desert, seemingly in the middle of nowhere,doesn't mean you can do whatever you want and nobody cares...leaving that hole is no different than leaving that motorhome. As an artist I expect more from them.
If this were in Japan, it would still be there in 100 years. Thanks for watching, please like and subscribe for more offbeat stuff!
Very sad people feel the need to just be destructive alcohol obviously plays into it but who would be drinking alcohol in the desert I can't see sober people just destroying things for no reason although nowadays it wouldn't surprise me.
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The infamous "tweeker" species is known for being destructive and prolific thieves.Plentiful around them parts!
Can we seriously fix western society. I'm so sick of the degeneracy
I was thinking if this were in Japan somewhere, it would last 500 years.
@@SurrealAdventure agreed, it amazes me how they have whole stores the run on the honour system and just have a wooden box for payment with no cashier. Only in Japan could you run a store like that and not have it get ruined the first day.
Very close to my house and I saw the MAGA Spray paint and racist words on the trailer. Makes sense.
I didn't see any MAGA anything anywhere, and I actually had to edit out a lot of racially insensitive things that were spray painted all over one side of that R.V. Which is why you don't see the side with the door. None of it was MAGA.
California, a third world country. The Mojave desert is a big open dumping ground.
I hate pretentious artists so damn much.